Austin, TX
A $34M winning Texas lottery ticket is still unclaimed. Here's where it was sold.
A photo of the Lotto Texas logo from the Texas Lottery.
Texas LotteryOn Tuesday, lottery officials announced that a winning ticket worth an annuitized $34 million was purchased at an Austin H-E-B. The winner, who has yet to claim their prize, chose the cash value option and is set to receive $20,205,534.60 before taxes. Those taxes are estimated to be around $4.8 million.
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The winning ticket matched all of the six numbers drawn. Those numbers were 6, 7, 23, 34, 37 and 50. The winner has 180 days from the date of the draw — Dec. 30 — to claim the prize.
“We look forward to meeting and congratulating the winner of the latest Lotto Texas jackpot prize,” said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery. “If you have the winning ticket, we encourage you to sign the ticket, put it in a safe place, seek financial and legal advice and call the Texas Lottery to schedule an appointment to claim the prize.”
During the same drawing, 83,254 tickets won lower prizes, from $2 to $13,201. Lotto Texas is played by picking six numbers from one to 54 and offers multimillion-dollar jackpots.